Zack Norman Dies: ‘Romancing The Stone’, ‘Cadillac Man’ & ‘The Nanny’ Actor Was 83
deadline.comZack Norman, a veteran character and producer who appeared in films including Romancing The Stone, Cadillac Man and several for director Harry Jaglom along with guested on The Nanny, The A-Team, Baywatch and other series, died April 28 of natural causes.
He was 83. His son-in-law Jeff Briller confirmed the news to Deadline. Born Howard Zuker on May 27, 1940, Norman received an executive MBA from Harvard Business School before embarking entering show business.
He performed as a comedian through the latter half of the 1960s and working the Playboy Clubs, the Flamingo and Copacabana with the Temptations.
He made his TV debut in 1969 doing stand-up on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He made about a half-dozen films in the 1970s before working on a pair of memorable ’80s films: He had a small role in Milos Forman’s Ragtime (1981) before being cast as Cousin Ira in Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone (1984).
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